Brush fire prompts theme park evacuation in California

Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park was evacuated on June 9 after a brush fire broke out in Santa Clarita. The fire broke out at around 12 p.m., the Los Angeles Times said. This footage shows smoke rising from the fire near Magic Mountain Parkway.
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Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park was evacuated on June 9 after a brush fire broke out in Santa Clarita. The fire broke out at around 12 p.m., the Los Angeles Times said. This footage shows smoke rising from the fire near Magic Mountain Parkway.
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A fast-moving wildfire Sunday near Six Flags Magic Mountain prompted evacuations and a short-lived “shelter in place” order at the amusement park and nearby Hurricane Harbor water park north of Los Angeles, KTLA reported.

The fire scorched 98 acres before firefighters stopped it from spreading, KCBS reported. It had reached 50 percent containment by Sunday night.

The amusement park wrote on Twitter at 12:30 p.m. that it had asked guests to leave, but at 1:15 p.m. reported guests were now being told to remain in the parks.

“LA County fire has asked all guests to remain at the park. The exit roads are temporarily closed. We will advise when they open,” the post read.

Don't make the same mistake I did and think that these cars were parked... this was the line to evacuate Magic Mountain ~15 mins ago. (Also, the parking lot may have the world's slowest LTE) #CAfirepic.twitter.com/mYAbJTIff1

Our Six Flags Magic Mountain trip so far... we didn’t even get to go on any rides because the fire across started as soon as we came in. Now we’re stuck in the park until further notice. pic.twitter.com/14SoFPE60u

The brush fire near magic mountain was crazy. Glad that we hadn’t gone inside yet. But tell me why when the ash was falling through the sky, I asked a worker if they were gonna make ppl evacuate , and sis said we can’t answer at this time... pic.twitter.com/8iQTE1SuSi